Text to Slug — Generate URL Slugs Online Free
Turn any title or phrase into a clean, URL-friendly slug. Instantly. No sign-up required.
How to text to slug
- 1Type or paste your title, heading, or phrase into the input field
- 2Choose your preferred separator (hyphen or underscore) and case setting
- 3The slug is generated in real time as you type
- 4Click 'Copy to Clipboard' to use the slug in your project
About This Tool
A URL slug is the part of a web address that identifies a specific page in a human-readable format. Converting a page title to a slug means transforming it into a lowercase, hyphenated string with no special characters. For example, "My Blog Post Title!" becomes "my-blog-post-title". Our text to slug tool does this conversion instantly as you type.
Clean slugs are important for both SEO and usability. Search engines use URL structure as a ranking signal, and users are more likely to click on a link that is readable and descriptive. This text to slug converter handles accented characters (converting "cafe" from "café"), strips punctuation and special symbols, collapses multiple separators, and trims leading and trailing separators to produce a polished result.
You can choose between hyphens and underscores as the word separator, and toggle lowercase conversion on or off. The tool processes everything in your browser with no server requests, so your content stays private. Whether you are building a blog, setting up product pages, or creating URL routes for a web application, this text to slug tool saves you the effort of manual formatting.
Frequently Asked Questions
Google recommends hyphens (-) as word separators in URLs because they are treated as spaces between words. Underscores (_) are not treated as separators by search engines, so hyphens are generally the better choice for SEO.
Yes. Accented characters like e-acute, n-tilde, and u-umlaut are converted to their closest ASCII equivalents. For example, 'creme brulee' is produced from 'creme brulee' with accents.
All characters that are not letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens, or underscores are removed. This includes punctuation, symbols, and special characters.
Yes. Uncheck the 'Lowercase' option to preserve the original capitalization. However, most URL conventions and SEO best practices recommend lowercase slugs.
The tool itself has no length limit. However, URLs should generally be kept under 2,048 characters for browser compatibility, and slugs under 60 characters are ideal for SEO readability.